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Seminar Speakers
Individual seminars may be presented by
several different speakers depending upon their work and travel schedules. Below
is a summary description of all the speakers at Reality Test, in alphabetical order.
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Steve Allott E l e c t
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Steve Allott is the founder of ElectroMind Limited, a
company that specializes in building and delivering creative training courses
for the IT industry. He holds an honors degree in Computer Science and is a
full member of the British Computer Society (BCS). |
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Ed Bryce
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Ed has over twenty-one years of experience in software development,
Quality Assurance, and testing in a variety of industries including
manufacturing, software applications, engineering design, and systems
integration. With seven years at Microsoft, Ed has been responsible for
multiple-project test labs, data warehousing testing, web and traditional
client-server based internal applications, localization testing, and meeting
ISO 9000 requirements for European clients of Microsoft Consulting Services.
Ed managed large cross-functional teams across multiple business units and
was responsible for multi-million dollar budgets. Prior to Microsoft, Ed worked at the Aldus Corporation (now Adobe)
managing the testing effort for the PageMaker desktop publishing application.
Ed also has experience at Deloitte and Touché working on a multi-year
software integration project for The Boeing Company, where he was the Quality
Assurance manager over the multi-company team. In addition to traditional software development projects, Ed also
designed, developed, tested, and implemented aerospace manufacturing systems
for a major missile manufacturing company. |
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Ross Collard |
Ross T. Collard is President of Collard & Company, a consulting firm
which specializes in systems testing and quality assurance. His clients have
included ADP, American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Bank of America, Baxter
Healthcare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Boeing, Cisco, Citibank, Dell, EDS,
Exxon, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Federal Reserve Bank, Ford,
Hewlett-Packard, Hughes Aircraft, Intel, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan,
Merck, Microsoft, Motorola, NASA, Nortel, Procter & Gamble, Prudential,
IBM, Swiss Bank, the U.S. Air Force, and Internet start-up companies. |
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Marquis Harding
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Managing
multimillion-dollar budgets and multi-disciplined staffs, Marquis has over
eighteen years on software development, Quality Assurance, and testing. He
has performed applications development for telephony engineering, software,
and financial industries, and is an
international speaker on QA processes and technologies. Marquis is also a
member of the British Computer Society SIG setting the standards for
performance testing in His experience
includes over 6 years at Microsoft as the Sr. QA manager for their Sales,
Marketing and Production Support Systems, and integration efforts of major
commercial software systems. Later, he
became the test manager for WindowsUpdate.com; the largest download site in
the world with over 1.3 million downloads per day. Under Marquis’ direction,
WindowsUpdate.com performed flawlessly, delivering 24x7 reliability with zero
downtime. He directed the largest QA team within IT at Microsoft, while
communicating and coordinating in a cross-functional team environment across
multiple business units. Prior to Microsoft,
Marquis was at Charles Schwab. He managed the Business Systems Testing Group,
supporting mission-critical applications in a complex environment of Unix,
NT, Windows, and legacy systems. Marquis started in
testing at Pacific Bell, and became the computer System Manager for
Information and Analysis. He developed systems and Quality Assurance processes
for critical management systems. These systems supported the Chief Financial
Officer in revenue, audit, and information systems. |
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Bret Pettichord
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Bret Pettichord is an
independent consultant with experience using a wide variety of test tools and
approaches. He's developed automated tests for software in various domains,
including publishing, accounting, sales, systems management, education and
benefits administration. The tutorial builds on Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven
Approach, the best-selling book he co-authored with Cem Kaner and James
Bach. Many of his writings are collected at www.pettichord.com. Specializing in
software testing and test automation, Bret has 14 years experience in
software development, including positions as a staff consultant at Segue
Software and a test automation lead at BMC and then IBM/Tivoli before
becoming an independent consultant. Recent clients have included Texas
Instruments, Rational Software, Texas Department of Human Services, Deliotte
Consulting, Whisperwire and Netpliance. He learned about software testing as
a tax programmer at Arthur Andersen and a software tester and automator at
Interleaf. |
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